Life Is Beautiful (2010 TV series)

Life Is Beautiful
Promotional poster for Life Is Beautiful
Also known as	Beautiful Life
Genre	Romance Drama Family
Written by	Kim Soo-hyun
Directed by	Jung Eul-young
Starring	Song Chang-eui Lee Sang-woo Lee Sang-yoon Nam Sang-mi
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language(s)	Korean
No. of episodes	63
Production
Location(s)	Korea
Running time	Saturdays and Sundays at 21:45 (KST)
Release
Original network	Seoul Broadcasting System
Original release	20 March (2010-03-20) – 7 November 2010 (2010-11-07)
Chronology
Preceded by	Smile, You
Followed by	Secret Garden
External links
tv.sbs.co.kr/beautifullife

Life Is Beautiful (Hangul: 인생은 아름다워; Hanja: 人生은 아름다워; RR: Insaengeun Areumdawo) is a 2010 South Korean television series starring Song Chang-eui, Lee Sang-woo, Lee Sang-yoon and Nam Sang-mi. It aired on SBS from March 20 to November 7, 2010 on Saturdays and Sundays at 21:45 for 63 episodes.

Aside from scoring ratings in the mid-twenty range during its run, the series is notable for its sensitive portrayal of a loving, openly gay couple in a Korean drama on primetime network television.

Set in Jeju, the drama revolves around a loving, multi-generation family led by the parents Yang Byung-tae (Kim Yeong-cheol) and Kim Min-jae (Kim Hae-sook), and their four children Tae-sub (Song Chang-eui), Ji-hye (Woo Hee-jin), Ho-sub (Lee Sang-yoon) and Cho-rong (Nam Gyu-ri), as well as assorted grandparents and uncles. The story follows the family's everyday lives and conflicts, including oldest daughter Ji-hye's marital problems with her husband Soo-il (Lee Min-woo); younger son Ho-sub's pursuit of his mother's assistant, Yeon-joo (Nam Sang-mi); and oldest son Tae-sub's romantic pairing with divorced professor Kyung-soo (Lee Sang-woo), whose homosexual relationship their families react to while addressing issues of personal, social, and familial acceptance, leading to, finally, love and understanding.

2010 3rd Korea Drama Awards